Wildfire07 Sevilla • The increase of the temperature of the planet will produce major water stress and changes in the presence and density of arboreal species, according to a report of the FAO. • This information will be approached in Wildire07, which will have place from May 13 to May 17 at the Conference and Exhibition Centre of Seville. • The meeting will work in an international strategy to face this ecological, social and economic problem.
SHANGHAI - China was sending thousands of personnel to battle a forest fire across a 3 km (1.9 mile) front in its remote northeastern mountains on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Nearly 1,000 firefighters had reached the scene of the blaze in the Great Xingan Mountains, near the Russian border in Heilongjiang Province, after the alarm was sounded on Monday.
This April appears to have been the driest since Germany has been recording the weather. Farmers and foresters alike are concerned, even as city dwellers flock to the beer gardens in their shirtsleeves. Foresters in the state of Brandenburg, which surrounds Berlin, are concerned about fire in their pine forests, as the sandy ground the tree favors dries out more quickly than clay soils. The German capital has had no significant rain since March 23.
by Ivailo Velkov and Shtilyana Chakarova The State should allow shooting of 50 wild bears annually, insists The Bulgarian Game NGO About a thousand bears are now wandering in Bulgarian forests. Their number has increased in the last few years, reports Bulgaria's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
After 15 years of discussions and negotiations on a global approach to protect the world’s forests, countries meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York have adopted a landmark agreement on international forest policy and cooperation following two weeks of intense negotiations.
New York, 16-27 April 2007 The seventh session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF-6) was held from 16-27 April 2007, at UN headquarters in New York. Nearly 600 participants attended the two-week session, which was viewed by most as a gargantuan task of negotiating both a non-legally binding instrument (NLBI) for sustainable forest management (SFM) for all types of forests and a Multi-Year Programme of Work (MYPOW) for the period 2007-2015.
The European Commission recently presented its work programme for the implementation of the EU Forest Action Plan (2007-2011), called for short “roadmap”. The key actions 1 to 18 are substantiated with working methods and instruments for the implementation within a certain time frame.
BRASILIA - Brazil will break up its environmental protection agency, the government said on Wednesday, in a move that should speed up the licensing of projects such as gas pipelines and dams in sensitive areas like the Amazon rain forest. The announcement came days after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva complained about delays in the construction of two large hydropower dams in the Amazon.
By Jo MacFarlane Wood for fences is in short supply GARDENERS are struggling to buy fences at the height of the DIY season because Britain’s timber supplies are being shipped to China and Dubai.
By James A. Swan, Ph.D. Author of "In Defense of Hunting" Two new books finally present hunters as good guys in children's literature Walt Disney's animated feature film "Bambi," (1942), based on the 1923 children's novel, Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten, has left its mark on the psyche of generations of young children, who tearfully watch Bambi lose his mother due to a hunter's bullet.
By Richard Black A remarkable father-and-son research project has revealed how rising temperatures are affecting fungi in southern England. Fungus enthusiast Edward Gange amassed 52,000 sightings of mushroom and toadstools during walks around Salisbury over a 50-year period.
Private individuals and families own slightly over half of the Finnish forests. There are almost one million forest owners in Finland, if we include all those who own forest holdings jointly. This means that nearly one fifth of the population are forest owners.
A timber mill on the north coast of New South Wales is the first in Australia to use forest waste to generate electricity. Big River Timbers near Grafton has secured government funding for the project, which it says will halve its $500,000 power bill.
By John Burton Singapore – The UN’s top environment official has backed a European Union plan to require the blending of plant-based biofuels into transport fuels despite environmental groups’ concerns that it could lead to increased deforestation in south-east Asia and Brazil.
By Shelley Boettcher Sustainable plant is used in flooring, furniture and now clothes Canada's jumping on a new green bandwagon, but these days, it's not just about recycled paper, beleaguered former environment ministers or pop bottles turned into fleece jackets.
BY EMI ENDO They cool down streets, remove tons of air pollution, boost property values and can even reduce asthma rates. That's why trees - a million of them - will be a part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sweeping plan to prepare the city for future population growth.
It's believed the majority of the countryside fires in the south and west of the country over the weekend were started deliberately. Firefighters in Galway have been struggling to bring the numerous forest and bog fires under control.
By Christian Tsoumou BRAZZAVILLE - The British government has donated 50 million pounds to protect the fragile ecosystem of the Congo Basin, the world's second largest rainforest, a British diplomat said on Wednesday.
By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright 23 April: a symbolic date for world literature for on this date and in the same year of 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died.
Dear Forests-L reader, I would like to inform you about a recent series of CIFOR publications on forest rehabilitation (three in Asia and two in Latin America) that may be of interest to your readers/ members. These include the following:
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has recognized seven winners of its ‘Champions of the Earth Award’ at a ceremony in Singapore where the agency’s chief praised the activists’ efforts to fight for change.
A beaver living wild in part of rural Perthshire for the past several months has been captured. It was thought beavers were on the loose after trees started to disappear at a fishery, with the trunks gnawed in two, and then a lodge later emerged.
The building and renovation boom in Sweden has resulted in an acute shortage of building materials. Prices are increasing and delivery delays are getting longer and longer.
UNITED NATIONS FORUM ON FORESTS SEEKS TO FINALIZE NEW INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT AT HEADQUARTERS 16-27 APRIL Over 500 delegates from Governments, intergovernmental organizations and civil society are participating in the United Nations Forum on Forests next week at United Nations Headquarters.
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